http://www.tngenweb.org/madison/families/bowman.txt A few days ago I asked everybody on this list to send me something, anything to share with others. To share something other than cemeteries, I have created a file of Bowman family information. I have not done much with genealogy since I began making cemetery web pages in August 1997. It wasn't until I was at Uptonville Cemetery and saw the marker for John Thomas Bowman that I remembered that at one time I had dabbled in Bowman lines in Madison County. The line is found in 1840 in the 15th district of Henderson Co. I think of Bowman as a famiy around Darden and Parsons, and the other Bowman family lines I have are there. I think of families in terms of cemeteries, and I think of Bowman as Mt. Ararat (Henderson Co.), Bear Creek, Bible Hill, Jeanette, and Parsons (Decatur Co.). In terms of cemeteries, the Bowman line I placed at Madison County TNGenWeb is Chapel Hill and Maple Springs in Henderson Co.; Mt. Pleasant in Chester Co.; and Beech Bluff, Uptonville, and Maple Springs in Madison Co. The farther west, the less information. One cemetery I meant to do last winter and never got around to was Lebanon Methodist. I decided to try going early in the morning, then go to the library and a movie in Jackson. Maybe I could get through the cemetery before it got too hot. I had already made an alphabetized version of the 1995 record to work with. I got to the cemetery at 6:00 and finished about 10:00 but it was already too hot. I normally try to flip through my paper copy and look to see if I missed anything. Yesterday all I could thing about was putting on a dry shirt and sitting in the car with the air conditioner on full. I did not look back through my notes. I missed a row. I know where I missed the row. About the fifth or so row from the west has four temporary markers at its north end. I had just worked from south to north on the row to the west. To get a reference point, I read the permanent marker immediately south of the temporary marker plates. Then I went north to the temporary plates (none was readable). Instead of going south on that row, I stepped to the next row to the east and went south on it. I went ahead and placed the Lebanon Methodist Cemetery online because as I thought there were many new markers and burials. The markers in the missing row are included from the 1995 record and noted as such. In the next couple of weeks I will get the missing row. It is easy to miss rows, especially where there are partial rows. You can also get off when you go to read a military marker used as a footstone. These may intrude into what should be the next row and I occasionally will follow the next row instead of the row I was working on. I usually catch myself when doing this, as I did once at Lebanon, but it would be so easy just to miss it. Every year I seem to go one day too far into May and have a miserable day. Yesterday was it. David